Explain to me like I'm 10 years old: Is the Biden tariffs on electric vehicles, batteries, and solar panels coming from China motivated 100% by politics (and maybe racism), or is there some other (more legit) reason to do it?
It's not just "politics", it's !POLITICS!. Protecting, subsidizing, and nurturing the automobile manufacturing industry has been central to American (and many other countries) government policy for many decades. Lots of money, lots of jobs. That it's soon going to come to an abrupt end due to climate change is something they're not yet ready to accept.
There's an extension called "Redirector" which can pretty easily redirect links to Youtube videos to an Invidious instance of your choice instead with a rule like .*youtube.com/watch\?v=(.*) -> https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=$1 (set it to pattern type "regular expression" if you use that one.)
It's strange that the Invidious UI is so much better, but until Google improves their version I feel justified in doing this.
Journalists: The student protestors appear to be college-aged individuals. Most of them are wearing Columbia sweatshirts. They're carrying overpriced textbooks. We have verified that they are enrolled in classes and are paying tuition to the university.
NYPD: Wow these Antifa agitators are using alarmingly advanced infiltration tactics.
Antifa, you think? My elderly TV-watching relatives are convinced that it's actual Hamas agents operating in Canada to infiltrate the university student population.
Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?
I was considering keeping xscreensaver and just blocking any network requests it makes at the firewall, but if jwz is going to be like that I guess it's enough motivation to actually look for a replacement.
xfce4-screensaver isn't packaged for debian stable as of yet, but I've built it from source with only minor hacking required to get it to run with the current version of everything else. Problem solved.
I know, it's hard to believe. The confidence with which it announced that an update is available suggests that the actual screensaver was checking for updates on its own. So far as the system package manager is concerned there isn't one.
As it turns out, it's just printing that message if more than 510 days have passed since the timestamp in version.h was updated, which it wasn't when the debian maintainers last applied a patch. So I guess it is taken as given that the program will forever continue to need updates that frequently and that those updates will be forthcoming.
Anyway, in keeping with the author's wishes I'll just use xfce4-screensaver instead. It seems fine.
I understand why you might want to refresh your package cache independently of performing an update.
But why does Apt effectively force you to do two commands just to update?
If my package cache is three weeks old then I'm going to need to do an update before an upgrade, because otherwise packages aren't there. So an update on its own is pointless. It's just going to try and update to non-existent packages.
Yum, DNF and Zypper all have the sense to fetch the latest package list.
Before moving to debian stable, I was long accustomed to systems which sometimes pushed updates which for my purposes seemed better left for others to try first. So for me it's still three steps rather than two: Update the package index, decide which ones to install, and then do the upgrade.
"Todd Howard reckons he knows why Starfield was so divisive: It was too 'different than you've seen from us in past'"
No, Todd, it's because you've stripped yet more from what made these games great and all the systems have barely evolved in all these years. It pales to your previous games in many respects.
What do you mean they haven't evolved? They've been streamlined and simplified in a thousand ways, and player hand-holding has increased by 135%. Also, it crashes less often and you can choose between seven kinds of generators when building your space house. What more do you want in a game? #Starfield
Wasn't the #Fediverse the friendlier, more diverse, and safer alternative? Well, not so much. Thanks to the FOSS Taliban, another well-loved creator leaves #Mastodon for good.
Well that's one way to look at it, but bear in mind that complaints about the "FOSS Taliban" ruining everything are getting very close to exactly the sort of thing she's talking about. It just one of the many reasons why social media kinda sucks if you're the sort of person to care about every reply and you get to be too popular.
So this is where the @dangoodin crusade in defence of "smart" TVs began? Someone said try Jellyfin instead and you were all "that's wrong because debit cards"? Who needs TV for entertainment, when we have threads like these.
